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Page Index
List of Resources
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Animated Knots - essential knots with animated examples by Grog. |
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Cavediggers - a forum for those interested in caves, caving and cave digging.
Intro to Caving - provides a basic introduction to the world of caves and caving. Has many links to additional resources providing: introduction for the beginning caver, cave sciences, conservation, advanced caving techniques, vertical caving and surveying.
NSS Brochures - download or order brochures like the "Guide to Responsible Caving."
Rope Rescue - an article by Kenneth N. Laidlaw called "Considerations For Rope Rescue in 2002."
Youth Group Caving - contains information that will help adult youth group leaders plan and execute the best and safest trip possible.
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Alpine Caving Techniques
by George Marbach and Bernard Tourte
© 2002
320 pages, hardbound
A complete guide to safe and efficient caving. Emphasis vertical caving and rigging practices, also presents new and thorough discussions in other aspects of cave exploration such as: equipment use, training, mental well-being, traveling efficiently through the cave, on and off rope, systematic prospection methods and emergency self-and small party-rescue techniques.
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Caving
by Chris Howes
© 2003
32 pages, hardbound
A brief introduction to caving techniques for children, which is illustrated with numerous color photos.
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Caving Basics: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginning Cavers
edited by G. Thomas Rea
© 1992
187 pages, softbound
A very readable, yet thorough manual for beginning cavers. Detailed discussions with photographs and diagrams acquaint the reader with lighting systems, helmets, clothing and other caving equipment for both the horizontal and vertical caver. Other chapters geology and biology of cave systems. Emphasis is placed on cave conservation and safety.
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Cave Conservation and Restoration
edited by Val Hildreth-Werker and Jim C. Werker
© 2006
600 pages, softbound
This book provides ideas and practical tools for cave conservation. It contains current concepts and practices in cave conservation, identifying and protecting cave resources, methods for cave restoration and repairing speleothems. Nearly a hundred pages of appendixes include a cave-protection act, sample management plan, sample agency cooperative agreement and a reference list.
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Encyclopedia of Caves
edited by David C. Culver and William B. White
© 2004
680 pages, hardbound
Encyclopedia of Caves is a self-contained, beautifully illustrated work dedicated to caves and their unique environments. It includes more than 100 comprehensive articles from leading scholars and explorers in 15 different countries. Each entry is detailed and scientifically sound, yet accessible for students and non-scientists. Enchanced with hundreds of full-color photographs, maps and drawings from the authors' own work.
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On Call: A Complete Reference for Cave Rescue
by John C. Hempel and Annette Fregeau-Conover
© 2001
384 pages, softbound
This book brings together the knowledge and experience accumulated by cave rescuers during 50 years of rescue in American caves. Intended to serve as a comprehensive reference for those interested in cave rescue, it is useful as a field guide for rescue squads and search and rescue (SAR) personnel who are occasionally called upon to work within a cave.
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On Caves and Cameras: A Comprehensive Guide to Underground Photography
edited by Norman Thompson and John Van Swearingen IV
© 2005
336 pages, hardbound
Whether you are just beginning to take pictures with a point-and-shoot camera or have many years of experience photographing in the dark, you will find information tailored to your needs. Topics include: single and multiple-flash photography, point-n-shoot cameras, digital cameras, photo-editing software, lighting huge spaces, close-up photography and photography in show caves. This book will enable you to take better photographs and inspire you to do so!
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On Rope, Second Edition
by Bruce Smith and Alan Padgett
© 1996
382 pages, hardbound
This book covers North American Vertical Rope Techniques. It covers ropes, knots, harnesses, rappelling, ascending and belaying. There are over 700 detailed drawings. Coverage of European SRT rigging techniques and climbing systems is covered. Includes detailed descriptions of other rope uses including used by arborists, river rescuers, window cleaners and circus riggers.
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On Station
by George R. Dasher
© 1994
240 pages, hardbound
The most comprehensive manual for surveying and mapping caves available, divided into three sections: collecting data, managing data and drafting the map. An appendix contains numerous sample cave maps, with comments by the author. Table of cave-map symbols on the endpapers. The definitive work on cave surveying.
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The NSS Audiovisual Video Catalog has many videos to view under the category of Safety and Techniques. You can even rent slide shows, videos and DVDs.
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Below are informational films on the subject of caving.
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Journey Into Amazing Caves
© 2004
format: DVD
40 minutes
This movie tells the story of Nancy Aulenbach and Dr. Hazel Barton, who share a love for caves and cave exploration. Join these two accomplished cavers as they explore unusual caves, like ice caves in Greenland and underwater caves in the jungles of Mexico, looking for important clues about the Earth's past and microorganisms that inhabit its most extreme environments. Narrated by Liam Neeson and featuring a soundtrack with songs and music from The Moody Blues, Journey Into Amazing Caves is MacGillivray Freeman Films' third Great Adventure Film. Photographed with IMAX® cameras, Journey into Amazing Caves played theatres worldwide.
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Mammoth Cave National Park
© 2001
format: DVD
75 minutes
You'll see the Historic, Frozen Niagara and Wild Cave tours, see Gothic, Boone and Cleaveland Avenues, Broadway, Mammoth Dome, Crystal Lake, Echo River, River Styx, the Rotunda and the saltpeter mines. Park Rangers explain the role of water in the cave system. See eyeless fish and cave crickets and learn how their habitats are explored.
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National Geographic's Mysteries Underground
© 1997
format: VHS
57 minutes
Embark on an extraordinary journey into the underworld of caves. Beneath our sunlit world lies an unknown universe of breathtaking caverns, treacherous passageways and absolute darkness. Join a National Geographic expedition to document for the first time on motion-picture film, the splendors of the world's most exotic new cave: New Mexico's Lechuguilla. Relive the excitement of those cavers who in 1986, first penetrated Lechuguilla, which had lain undisturbed for millions of years. Marvel at the pristine beauty of gypsum chandeliers, gnarled calcite columns, and jewel-like lakes. Then, join the 1972 expedition that stumbled upon a passageway that linked the Mammoth and Flint Ridge Cave systems, creating the longest cave network in the world. And relive thrilling discoveries and heart wrenching tragedies in caving history, including the world's most famous caver: Floyd Collins.
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To the Edge
© 2004
format: DVD
55 minutes
At the edge of El Capitan, the highest vertical free drop in the U.S., a team works together. This is your personal invitation to join seasoned rappellers as they challenge and conquer the 2,650-foot vertical granite monolith in Yosemite National Park. Rig onto the rope as we take you To The Edge of eXTreme Rappels, LLC's, production.
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For suggestions and additions you would like to see in the resource list, please contact the Safety and Techniques Committee Chairperson Kurt Waldron at cave_safe@hotmail.com.
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